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Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Aug 25,1979; Section: None; Page: 5
Kurds lose
From Ráuter tn'Tehran
Iranian Goventmerat (ones
la4r!i!kt recaptured the Nut-
dish guerrilla stron4hold t
t ez liter i three-daybattle.
the official Pars news agency
reported. -
The agency quoted the coin-
mender of the 28th infantry
division based in Sanandaj as
saying the town felt to a relief
colusa
There was no iesdepensteait
confirmation of the report ae
telephone operators reported alt
lines to the hill town were cut.
The Pars report Indicated the
column first retievod a stranded
army garrison on the edge of
town which had been under
heavy mortar and light artillery
fire Irons Kurdish guerrillas.
l lelicopffl!ifatrlps pounded
the town with rockets and
machine gun fire throughout the
day, according to eye-witnesses.
There wan no relishlo esti mate
of casualttea available. Kurdtah
guerrillas, under the leadership leader angry:' No! they must
of the banned Kurdish Demo- be punished. ThiS'ia no g3aee
cratic Party. aSeld the for them hare. They omit leo n e.
northern stronghold of litahsbsd ‘The revolution. in ' as Lalansie
although a battle between army one and everyboe%ywhä chooses
tanks and guerrillas using another - ‘p a th mu at be
rockets and artillefy was repor- suppressed.”
ted to be ragIng 20 miles outaide The HIP leader, Abduirab-
the town: yesterday, man Qaesemiou, said in Mali.-
The battle halted at nightfall bad that the' Kurde were
when the tanks were as longer prepared to negottii ith the
able to snake uae of roconnass- centeai Government if four
sauce helicopters tO pinpoint conditions were met Mr Qsa-
guerrilla emplacements. semlou. dressed -in trsotttienal
In a speech ihe mark the end Kurdish baggy' trousers ansi
of itasnadon. the nornislly most- imlt esa top with a pistol on
crate Tehrsn religious leader, his hip, listed the conditions
Ayatoilsh Mshnsoud Taleghani, as: suspension of further troop
cursed the HIP and branded its reinforcements to the Kurdish
memhers as Communists. Using region; the release of pu lSeS
a Persian curse, he said: “Dust prboners; the freeing of sit
en their beads. The name of the iturdish hostagea: so end to
NUt' brIngs back very bad etions of Kuids alleged to
memories” have takers paus the fight'
leg. Thy Kurdish leader said
In a reference to Ayatollah that If the-ueSttsons ware not
Ichemelni. he said: “The
leader of the Revolution himself met his side would continue
asked me why are you defend- tlghtieg.
log these people, and now you Istahabad' was completely in
see hew they have made the Kurdisis hands and the guer.
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• n it s t nghold
lies' -!ere armed .with.-G'I.
l{alsshsisksv; lit-i; and eseohoslo-
vsk-msde Berno :‘ ‘automatic
rifles. Old men: reussoing the
administration nt . *ho' ‘KDP
offices all carried pistols.
State radio yeterday broad-
cast half-hourly appdala to the
people of Saqqee not to help
what it described as rounterre'
volulloosry elements which
load entered the town asset wore
attacking the garrison with
morre. The radio- laid thst
soldIers in the garrison did not
wsnt to fight in order to avoid
bloedshed. It aatd that three
officers, sire sergesnte, and
seven privates at the garrison
bad been killed.
The army had untta at Mlsn-
dowab, northeast of. Mohubsd,
but Nerds held the road be-
tween—tim two towns sad had
built sandbeg emplacements
along somo stretches: Thn
geerrillas were using raptured
army jeeps and lorrtae for
transport..
Kenneth ltfecKeorie odds
frosts itakqro With reports of
growing political unrest tic pro..
vinces of south-eaatern Turkey.
the Minister of the Interior.
ME Boson Fehmi Guoee, has
cleated a 10-day tour of investi-
gation of the moat aesstttve
a mos. -
In tire past two weeks politi-
cal violence has increased, de-
aptie governanenial claims to
the eostnry.
The authorities are primarily
worried about reports of eeea-
lottsrg unrest is south-eastern
Turkey psrtscuisrly in Un a
pnavlnee, where a local pro-
Kurdish group has perpetrated
a series of terresisi outrages,
including the murders of pro-
notnent Right-wIngera and the
wounding of a justice party
depuiy. The autboritlea arc
alarmed that the secessionist
orgsnisetlen — led by a Left-
wing faction known as the
Apoists — may he sttensptin
to set up “liberated zones.'
Ayatollah Taleghasai
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